2023 Oscar Nominations Predictions
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- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsMichelle YeohStephanie HsuJamie Lee CurtisA middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Director(s) (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh)
Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan)
Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
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Best Supporting Actress (Stephanie Hsu)
Best Sound
Best Original Score
Best Original Song (“This is a Life”) - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMichelle WilliamsGabriel LaBellePaul DanoGrowing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Director (Steven Spielberg)
Best Supporting Actor (Paul Dano)
Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Original Score
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Best Actor (Gabriel LaBelle)
Best Supporting Actor (Judd Hirsch)
Best Costume Design - DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellBrendan GleesonKerry CondonTwo lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Director (Martin McDonagh)
Best Actor (Colin Farrell)
Best Supporting Actor (Barry Keoghan)
Best Supporting Actor (Brendan Gleeson)
Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
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Best Production Design
Best Editing
Best Original Score - DirectorJoseph KosinskiStarsTom CruiseJennifer ConnellyMiles TellerAfter thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Director (Joseph Kosinski)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Song (“Hold My Hand”)
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Best Actor (Tom Cruise) - DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsTom HanksAustin ButlerOlivia DeJongeThe life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Actor (Austin Butler)
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Sound
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Best Director (Baz Luhrmann)
Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hanks)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography - DirectorEdward BergerStarsFelix KammererAlbrecht SchuchAaron HilmerA young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Sound
Best International Feature
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Best Director (Edward Berger)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score - DirectorTodd FieldStarsCate BlanchettNoémie MerlantNina HossSet in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Actress (Cate Blanchett)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
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Best Director (Todd Field)
Best Supporting Actress (Nina Hoss)
Best Editing - DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsThobias ThorwidHarris DickinsonCharlbi DeanA fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Director (Ruben Östlund)
Best Supporting Actress (Dolly de Leon)
Best Original Screenplay
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Best Supporting Actor (Woody Harrelson)
Best Editing - DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney WeaverJake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Sound
Best Visual Effects
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Best Director (James Cameron)
Best Production Design
Best Original Score
Best Original Song (“Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)”) - DirectorSarah PolleyStarsRooney MaraClaire FoyJessie BuckleyDo nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.Likely:
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor (Ben Whishaw)
Best Adapted Screenplay
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Best Director (Sarah Polley)
Best Actress (Rooney Mara)
Best Supporting Actress (Jessie Buckley)
Best Costume Design - DirectorRyan CooglerStarsLetitia WrightLupita Nyong'oDanai GuriraThe people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.Likely:
Best Supporting Actress (Angela Bassett)
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Song (“Lift Me Up”)
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Best Picture
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Sound
Best Original Score - DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsBrad PittMargot RobbieJean SmartA tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.Likely:
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Original Score
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Best Picture
Best Actress (Margot Robbie)
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Sound - DirectorGuillermo del ToroMark GustafsonStarsEwan McGregorDavid BradleyGregory MannA father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.Likely:
Best Animated Feature
Best Original Score
Best Original Song (“Ciao Papa”)
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Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Production Design
Best Sound - DirectorGina Prince-BythewoodStarsViola DavisThuso MbeduLashana LynchA historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.Likely:
Best Actress (Viola Davis)
Best Costume Design
Best Original Score
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Best Production Design
Best Editing - DirectorBrett MorgenStarsDavid BowieTrevor BolderKen FordhamA cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.Likely:
Best Editing
Best Sound
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsBrendan FraserSadie SinkTy SimpkinsA reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.Likely:
Best Actor (Brendan Fraser)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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Best Picture
Best Supporting Actress (Hong Chau)
Best Adapted Screenplay - DirectorOliver HermanusStarsBill NighyAimee Lou WoodAlex SharpIn 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.Likely:
Best Actor (Bill Nighy)
Best Adapted Screenplay
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Best Picture
Best Costume Design - DirectorMatt ReevesStarsRobert PattinsonZoë KravitzJeffrey WrightWhen a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.Likely:
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Visual Effects
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Best Cinematography
Best Sound - DirectorAndrew DominikStarsAna de ArmasLily FisherJulianne NicholsonThe story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.Likely:
Best Actress (Ana de Armas)
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Best Makeup and Hairstyling - DirectorSam MendesStarsOlivia ColmanMicheal WardColin FirthA drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.Likely:
Best Cinematography
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Best Original Screenplay - DirectorRian JohnsonStarsDaniel CraigEdward NortonKate HudsonTech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.Likely:
Best Adapted Screenplay
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Best Costume Design - DirectorMaria SchraderStarsZoe KazanCarey MulliganPatricia ClarksonJodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's quest to break the Harvey Weinstein scandal.Likely:
Best Adapted Screenplay
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Best Supporting Actress (Carey Mulligan) - DirectorShaunak SenStarsSalik RehmanMohammad SaudNadeem ShehzadAmidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.Likely:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorSantiago MitreStarsRicardo DarínGina MastronicolaFrancisco BertínA team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.Likely:
Best International Feature - DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie DequenneThe intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.Likely:
Best International Feature - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsPark Hae-ilTang WeiLee Jung-hyunA detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.Likely:
Best International Feature - DirectorMargaret BrownStarsTheodore ArthurGary AutreyChris DavisFollows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.Likely:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsHolaTakoMariettaFollows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.Likely:
Best International Feature - DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.Likely:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorDean Fleischer CampStarsJenny SlateDean Fleischer CampIsabella RosselliniA cash-strapped documentary maker decides to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends.Likely:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorJordan PeeleStarsDaniel KaluuyaKeke PalmerBrandon PereaThe residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.Likely:
Best Visual Effects - DirectorJoel CrawfordJanuel MercadoStarsAntonio BanderasSalma HayekHarvey GuillénWhen Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.Likely:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorMatthew HeinemanTells the story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.Likely:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorS.S. RajamouliStarsN.T. Rama Rao Jr.Ram CharanAjay DevgnA fearless warrior on a perilous mission comes face to face with a steely cop serving British forces in this epic saga set in pre-independent India.Likely:
Best Original Song (“Naatu Naatu”) - DirectorChinonye ChukwuStarsDanielle DeadwylerJalyn HallFrankie FaisonIn 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.Likely:
Best Actress (Danielle Deadwyler) - DirectorDomee ShiStarsRosalie ChiangSandra OhAva MorseA thirteen-year-old girl named Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the changes of adolescence. And as if the challenges were not enough, whenever she gets overly excited she transforms into a giant red panda.Likely:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorFlorian ZellerStarsVanessa KirbyHugh JackmanLaura DernPeter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.Likely:
Best Actor (Hugh Jackman) - DirectorHenry SelickStarsLyric RossKeegan-Michael KeyJordan PeeleTwo scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.Likely:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorCharlotte WellsStarsPaul MescalFrankie CorioCelia Rowlson-HallSophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...Possibly:
Best Actor (Paul Mescal)
Best Original Screenplay - DirectorMarc ForsterStarsTom HanksMariana TreviñoRachel KellerOtto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.Possibly:
Best Actor (Tom Hanks)
Best Adapted Screenplay - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsDaniel Giménez CachoGriselda SicilianiXimena LamadridAn acclaimed documentarian goes on an introspective journey through surreal dreamscapes to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity.Possibly:
Best Cinematography
Best International Feature - DirectorTobias LindholmStarsEddie RedmayneJessica ChastainDenise PillottAn infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients.Possibly:
Best Actress (Jessica Chastain)
Best Supporting Actor (Eddie Redmayne) - DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.Possibly:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorDavid O. RussellStarsChristian BaleMargot RobbieJohn David WashingtonIn the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.Possibly:
Best Makeup and Hairstyling - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsMilo CoyJack BlackLee EddyA coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.Possibly:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorJames GrayStarsAnne HathawayJeremy StrongBanks RepetaA deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.Possibly:
Best Original Screenplay - DirectorDavid SievStarsSkyler JanssenMichael MeinholdChun SievA real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.Possibly:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorPierre PerifelStarsSam RockwellMarc MaronAwkwafinaTo avoid prison, a gang of notorious animal criminals pretends to seek being rehabilitated, only for their leader to realize that he genuinely wants to change his ways.Possibly:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorLila NeugebauerStarsJennifer LawrenceBrian Tyree HenryLinda EmondA US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.Possibly:
Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsViggo MortensenLéa SeydouxKristen StewartHumans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.Possibly:
Best Makeup and Hairstyling - DirectorSam RaimiStarsBenedict CumberbatchElizabeth OlsenChiwetel EjioforDoctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl who can travel across multiverses, to battle other-universe versions of himself which threaten to wipe out the multiverse. They seek help from the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.Possibly:
Best Visual Effects - DirectorAntoine FuquaStarsWill SmithBen FosterCharmaine BingwaA runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.Possibly:
Best Makeup and Hairstyling - DirectorDavid YatesStarsEddie RedmayneJude LawEzra MillerAlbus Dumbledore knows that Gellert Grindelwald is moving to take control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he asks Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team on a dangerous mission.Possibly:
Best Visual Effects - DirectorDaniel GellerDayna GoldfineStarsLeonard CohenNancy BacalSteve BerkowitzThis documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah".Possibly:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorAli AbbasiStarsAlice RahimiDiana Al HussenSoraya HelliA journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.Possibly:
Best International Feature - DirectorJeremiah ZagarStarsAdam SandlerQueen LatifahJuancho HernangomezA basketball scout discovers a phenomenal street ball player while in Spain and sees the prospect as his opportunity to get back into the NBA.Possibly:
Best Actor (Adam Sandler) - DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsAvu-chanMirai MoriyamaTasuku EmotoA cursed dancer and a musician stun society with electrifying concerts in this animated rock opera.Possibly:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorSaim SadiqStarsAli JunejoRasti FarooqAlina KhanThe youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.Possibly:
Best International Feature - DirectorColin TrevorrowStarsChris PrattBryce Dallas HowardLaura DernFour years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.Possibly:
Best Visual Effects - DirectorAngus MacLaneStarsChris EvansKeke PalmerPeter SohnWhile spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.Possibly:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorAnthony FabianStarsLesley ManvilleIsabelle HuppertLambert WilsonA widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.Possibly:
Best Costume Design - DirectorDaniel RoherStarsAlexei NavalnyYulia NavalnayaChristo GrozevFollows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.Possibly:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorColm BairéadStarsCarrie CrowleyAndrew BennettCatherine ClinchIn rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.Possibly:
Best International Feature - DirectorDavy ChouStarsPark Ji-minOh Gwang-RokGuka HanA twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.Possibly:
Best International Feature - DirectorSean AndersStarsWill FerrellRyan ReynoldsOctavia SpencerA musical version of Charles Dickens's story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey.Possibly:
Best Original Song (“Good Afternoon”) - DirectorDon HallQui NguyenStarsJake GyllenhaalJaboukie Young-WhiteGabrielle UnionThe legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.Possibly:
Best Animated Feature - DirectorLucia BulgheroniSilvia CarobbioCatherine HardwickeStarsCara DelevingneMarcia Gay HardenEva LongoriaStories of women, both in front of and behind the camera.Possibly:
Best Original Song (“Applause”) - DirectorAlex PritzStarsNeidinha BandeiraBitaté Uru Eu Wau WauWhen a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.Possibly:
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorRon HowardStarsViggo MortensenColin FarrellJoel EdgertonA rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.Possibly:
Best Visual Effects - DirectorOlivia NewmanStarsDaisy Edgar-JonesTaylor John SmithHarris DickinsonA woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.Possibly:
Best Original Song (“Carolina”) - DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam DriverGreta GerwigDon CheadleDramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.Possibly:
Best Adapted Screenplay - DirectorFrank ChiStarsKobe BryantTyson ChandlerRonny ChiengFollows the cultural impact of NBA trailblazer Jeremy Lin during his 2011-12 season with the New York Knicks and the cultural phenomenon known as "Linsanity".Likely:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorTom BerkeleyRoss WhiteStarsSeamus O'HaraJames MartinPaddy JenkinsIn rural Northern Ireland, a pair of estranged brothers reunite following their mother's untimely death.Likely:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorTanaz EshaghianThree young adults join a running program for disabled youth in Pakistan, hoping to shift perspectives in their rural community.Likely:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorPeter BayntonCharlie MackesyStarsJude Coward NicollTom HollanderIdris ElbaFollows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home.Likely:
Best Animated Short - DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyA sailor is sent hurtling into the sky by the Halifax Explosion.Likely:
Best Animated Short - DirectorRivkah Beth MedowJen RaininStarsKesher RaderMoses RaderRandi RaderA Broadway performer becomes a mother, braiding rhythm and grief and time and joy on her path to connect with her profoundly disabled son.Likely:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorJay RosenblattStarsElla RosenblattFrom the time she was two years old and until she turned 18, they had a ritual: Dad asked (and filmed), and Ella answered. What do you dream about? What scares you? What do you think about our relationship? This is a little story about growing up and the love between father and daughter.Likely:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorJoão GonzalezEvery day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.Likely:
Best Animated Short - DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsAlba RohrwacherGreta Zuccheri MontanariCarmen PommellaFollow the rebellious girls of a Catholic boarding school before Christmas, a time of war and scarcity.Likely:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorJérémie BalaisJeffig Le BarsStarsColman DomingoAn imaginative surrealist journey of young Jay Jay and his mother Edie as their inner city dreams are illuminated by the new moon a in a backyard in West Philadelphia.Likely:
Best Animated Short - DirectorGabriela Osio VandenJack WeismanDocumentary study of the polar bears who draw tourists to Churchill, Manitoba.Likely:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorCyrus NeshvadStarsNawelle EvadSarkaw GoranyAnne KleinLuxembourg Airport. Late in the evening. A veiled 16-year-old Iranian girl is frightened to take her red suitcase on the automatic carpet. She keeps pushing back the moment to go through the arrival gate and seems more and more terrified.Likely:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorSpencer SusserStarsZac EfronRicky GervaisTricia HelferRalph, a bunny being interviewed for a documentary, goes through his daily routine as a "tester" in a lab.Likely:
Best Animated Short - DirectorCarlos SegundoStarsPriscilla VilelaÊnio CavalcanteFernanda CunhaIn Natal, on the Brazilian coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with children near the space center, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.Likely:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorDania BdeirStarsHassan AqqoulKhansaKamal SalehAway from everyone's eyes, a Beirut crane operator is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.Likely:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorNils KellerStarsSusanne WolffJeremias MeyerStephan KampwirthWhen they learn of an outbreak of a dangerous virus shortly before their long-awaited return to Earth, a teenager and his mother struggle to decide whether to land or return to space aboard their confined spaceship.Possibly:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorAndrew AbrahamsHerb FerretteStarsTom WilliamsonDoug SiebumNJ BrownThis documentary focuses on the sensationalized murder trial of Black Panther Party Co-Founder Huey Newton in the volatile summer of 1968.Possibly:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorSarah McCarthyA woman whose resistance to the Putin regime comes at a terrible cost.Possibly:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorCinque NorthernStarsNorris HendersonLiza Jessie PetersonAngola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison gives us a window into playwright Liza Jessie Peterson's performance in 2020 of her acclaimed play The Peculiar Patriot performed at Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, said to be America's largest prison.Possibly:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorLachlan PendragonStarsLachlan PendragonJohn CavanaghMichael RichardA young office worker uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich.Possibly:
Best Animated Short - DirectorKartiki GonsalvesStarsBellieBommanBomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world.Possibly:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorRobert-Jonathan KoeyersStarsAnka FerrisHenry BrinkerhoffKevin StricklandA fragmented portrait of a moment seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have different recollections of the same fateful moment that will alter their lives forever.Possibly:
Best Animated Short - DirectorAnders WalterPipaluk K. JørgensenStarsMila Heilmann KreutzmannNivi LarsenAngunnguaq LarsenIvalu is gone. Her little sister is desperate to find her. Her father does not care. The vast Greenlandic nature holds secrets. The search for Ivalu is on.Possibly:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorAnne AlvergueDebra McClutchyStarsMartha MitchellDwight ChapinConnie ChungThe Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administration's campaign to gaslight her into silence.Possibly:
Best Documentary Short - DirectorAmy BenchStarsMugeni OrnellaOne night at her home in southeastern Congo, 14-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself completely alone. From there, she sets out on a remarkable solo journey across the globe, determined to reunite with her lost loved ones and lift up the Banyamulenge people.Possibly:
Best Animated Short - DirectorSara GunnarsdóttirStarsBrie TiltonJackson KellyKlarissa HernandezPam tries very hard to lose her virginity and always searches for "the one." She's not alone; her best friends are with her.Possibly:
Best Animated Short - DirectorAndreas KesslerStarsAnton KrymskiyPeter MikluszYevgeni SitokhinTwelve year old violin player Mitka is supposed to execute an attack on several SS officers in the name of a Ukrainian partisan movement. But his attempt will also put his only friend in life danger.Possibly:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorAdrian Moyse DullinStarsYasser OsmaniAya HalalRamatoulaye NdongoWhen naive and romantic Mahdi is peer-pressured into confessing his love to Jada, a girl who doesn't know he exists, his declaration becomes a public spectacle.Possibly:
Best Live-Action Short - DirectorSpela CadezStarsMarusa MajerMarko MandicMatej LavrencicThe steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc's stomach is rumbling. But Liza's co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?Possibly:
Best Animated Short